Lucy Foulkes on Defining and Dealing with Mental Illness

Keen On

1×

0:00

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -36:03

-36:03

Lucy Foulkes on Defining and Dealing with Mental Illness

Andrew Keen

Jun 23, 2021

In this episode of "Keen On", Andrew is joined by Lucy Foulkes, the author of "Losing Our Minds: What Mental Illness Really is and What it isn't", to discuss how we distinguish between severe suffering and actual illness.

Lucy Foulkes is an academic psychologist with expertise in mental health and social development, particularly in adolescence. She completed an MRC-funded PhD in psychology at UCL (2011-2015) and a postdoc at UCL's Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (2015-2017). She then worked as a lecturer in psychology and education at the University of York (2018-2020) and as an editor for the popular psychology magazine Psyche (2020-2021). She is now an honorary lecturer at UCL.

Discussion about this podcast

Keen On

Nobody asks sharper or more impertinent questions than Andrew Keen. In KEEN ON, Andrew cross-examines the world’s smartest people on politics, economics, history, the environment, and tech. If you want to make sense of our complex world, check out the daily questions and the answers on KEEN ON.

Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best-known technology and politics broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running show How To Fix Democracy and the author of four critically acclaimed books about the future, including the international bestselling CULT OF THE AMATEUR.

Keen On is free to listen to and will remain so. If you want to stay up-to-date on new episodes and support the show please subscribe to Andrew Keen’s Substack. Paid subscribers will soon be able to access exclusive content from our new series Keen On America.

Listen on